The Center has three institutes dedicated to studying the American South through a range of lenses: the Southern Foodways Alliance, the Southern Documentary Project, and Living Blues magazine. Read More >

Scott Baretta, Host of Highway 61, Mark Camarigg, Managing Editor, Living Blues Greg Johnson, Curator, Blues Archive Brown Bag Lectures take place each Wednesday at noon during the school year in Barnard Observatory.

Michael Twitty will present a lecture entitled “The Evolution of African Foodways in the Most Southern Place on Earth: Colonial and Antebellum Mississippi” at 7pm on Wednesday, March 8 in the Tupelo Room of Barnard Observatory. Free and open to the public. More details to come. Learn more about Michael Twitty here.

2015 Blues Today Symposium – April 9 Since 2003, Living Blues magazine has sponsored the Blues Today Symposium each spring on the University of Mississippi campus. The Symposium has featured such keynote speakers as Paul Oliver, Samuel Charters, and Bill Ferris as well as intimate musical performances by Honeyboy Edwards, Little Milton, and B.B. King. The 2015… Read More >

There will be a screening of The Toughest Job: William Winter’s Mississippi on Tuesday, April 14 at 6pm at the Annenberg Theater at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Governor Winter will be in attendance and will give remarks following the screening. Those wishing to attend should RSVP to cekalu@go.olemiss.edu. About the Film The Toughest Job:… Read More >